Unofficial Microsoft 365 Changelog

• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams: Block users from joining externally hosted Teams meetings

MC707664 – Updated April 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. This feature enables tenant admins to control whether some users in their organizations can join any externally hosted Microsoft Teams meetings. When these regulated users are signed in on their Teams clients, their ability to join an...

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• Microsoft Viva

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Viva Admin center: New capabilities for added flexibility and to manage adoption

MC715691 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft has added new capabilities to the Microsoft Viva Insights Admin center that will make it easier to assign leaders access, measure adoption, and stay informed of key updates. When this will happen: Preview: Microsoft will begin...

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• Microsoft Viva

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Viva Connections: Dark mode support on Microsoft Teams

MC726116 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft Viva Connections will now respect dark mode on both Microsoft Teams Desktop and mobile devices. When this will happen: Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, and DoD: Microsoft will begin rolling out late March 2024 (previously early March)...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Deploy your Frontline Operational hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center

MC705350 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Operational hierarchy will enable admins to map their organization’s structure of frontline teams/locations to a hierarchy in the Teams Admin Center. Admins can define metadata that ranges from department information to brand information metadata for each team/location....

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• Microsoft 365 suite

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Purview – Audit Search Graph API (Preview)

MC679735 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft Graph offers a unified API endpoint for accessing data from multiple Microsoft cloud services in a single response. This feature provides a new Audit Log Query API that enables our customers to create applications to programmatically...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Changes to the Website tab in the new Teams client

MC708500 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Starting April 2024, Microsoft Teams will be retiring the ability to load websites inside the new Teams client when using the Website tab. These website links will open in a new browser tab instead. This is to...

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• Exchange Online
• Microsoft 365 Apps
• Microsoft 365 for the web

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Outlook: Track Read Receipts within Outlook on the Web and the New Outlook for Windows

MC692016 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline for GCC, below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft is developing the ability to view the updated Read Receipt status of recipients from the sent item directly. This message is associated with Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 184504 When this will happen: Worldwide: Microsoft will...

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• Microsoft 365 Apps

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Office documents have a new default theme

MC666615 – Updated March 15, 2024: Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. A new default document theme is coming to Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook across your endpoints. The new theme will include the new default font, Aptos, a new color palette, and updated default line weights. This change...

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• Microsoft Teams

M365 Changelog: (Updated) Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC): Search now supports resource accounts

MC719655 – Updated March 15, 2024; Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline below. Thank you for your patience. Microsoft is excited to announce that the search bar at the top of the Microsoft Teams admin center (TAC) will now support resource accounts. When this will happen: Worldwide, GCC, and GCC High: Microsoft will begin rolling...

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• SharePoint Online

M365 Changelog: SharePoint Online: Change history reports now include organization settings reports

MC740510 – There is a feature enhancement for change history reports in the SharePoint admin center. Now, with the newly launched organization setting reports, you can track and review changes made to settings that impact the entire tenant. Leverage change history reports by creating up to ten instances to track what changed, when it happened, and...

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